http://www.raulpacheco.org/2009/10/neo-institutionalism-at-the-forefront-of-the-nobel-2009-prizes-with-elinor-ostroms-win/ Environmental research, teaching & consulting Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:41:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.raulpacheco.org/2009/10/neo-institutionalism-at-the-forefront-of-the-nobel-2009-prizes-with-elinor-ostroms-win/comment-page-1/#comment-4453 Monica P Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:18:05 +0000 http://www.raulpacheco.org/?p=258#comment-4453 well...as Elionor Ostrom, herself, admitted , her work is only the beginning of a research for a theory which may develop a solution for the problem of collective action (or the "tragedy of commons"). I believe she forgot about Olson theory about the privileged groups and the small intermediate groups because she still cannot explain why is cooperation possible only in some small communities and in others not. We must search in other place for explanations, as she said, this kind of details are important and we need to discover them. Maybe John Stuart Mill had an ideea with his psihologist approach of methodological individualism. well…as Elionor Ostrom, herself, admitted , her work is only the beginning of a research for a theory which may develop a solution for the problem of collective action (or the “tragedy of commons”). I believe she forgot about Olson theory about the privileged groups and the small intermediate groups because she still cannot explain why is cooperation possible only in some small communities and in others not. We must search in other place for explanations, as she said, this kind of details are important and we need to discover them. Maybe John Stuart Mill had an ideea with his psihologist approach of methodological individualism.

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